#sensorysensitivity — Public Fediverse posts

Hey fellow autistics (& Co) - general curiosity / discussion question:
Do you have a sensory (or "experiential") sensitivity that might be considered generally innocuous or at least tolerable up to a certain point, but ANYTHING above absolute zero has your hackles up? Just nope, shut it down, I cannot be around / experience that because it shuts my brain down.

Mine is whistling. Tuneless whistling is torture, but honestly even someone "good" at it, whistling a recognizable tune, has me like a cat with its fur stroked the wrong way. Instant tension and irritation flooding through my body, physically in fight mode and mentally in freeze / shutdown. It's a disruption / jamming signal on all my internal frequencies.

I think it's because I've always been able to hear higher frequencies and pitches - the vague electronic / electric squealing or whining in the office that no one else can hear but is drilling into my brain and giving me a headache. And while whistling might not be quite as piercingly high-pitched, it's approaching it AND it's a lot LOUDER than those "white noises" you feel more than hear, so somehow it's even WORSE and it really physically hurts me but I can't be the jerk who says, "hey can you knock off being cheerful and whistling a tune? it's causing me pain and mental distress" so I suffer in agitated, disregulated silence.

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